The Sandy Food Chronicles

I liked this article QZ: Rotisserie chicken but I took exception to some of its claims. For instance, it says “the modern-day rotisserie renaissance—cheap birds in take-home containers at supermarkets and big-box stores—can be traced back to the early ‘90s”. Now wait a minute. I remember salivating over rotisserie chicken at Monty’s Inn in Kingston, Jamaica […]

Get ready to be bored by a weekly barrage of bread. I’m back to school at George Brown College learning all about Whole Grain Artisan Bread. This being the first of twelve weeks of classes, I was embarrassingly unprepared. I remembered the essentials of my uniform (pants, jacket, apron and hat) but I had to […]

The zucchini looked big in Cody’s box. It looked even bigger on its own. I weighed the monster on my Iron Man scale (so called because … isn’t it obvious?) What do you do with a 1.675 kg Zuke and his 536g younger brother? It’s going to take many meals to find out. King Arthur […]

Originally posted on The Sandy Chronicles: Cody’s Veggie Box Cody is an organic farmer who sells veggie boxes every other week or so. In olden days people would push carts of fruit and vegetables around and call out what they had to sell. Housewives would poke their heads through the window, flag them down and…